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Examining The Relationship Between Connection Rituals And Marital Satisfaction: A Correlational Study, Heather Holmgren Brown

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to examine the types, frequency, and meaningfulness of connection rituals and the relationship between these items and marital satisfaction. Past research has shown that rituals correlate with marital satisfaction. Three research questions guided the study: (1) What connection rituals do couples participate in and with what frequency? (2) How meaningful are the connection rituals to the husband or wife? and (3) Are some connection rituals more strongly associated to marital satisfaction?

The research questions were tested with data from eighty couples who completed a survey designed specifically for this study. The top three reported …

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Supplemental Labels In Museum Exhibits, Clint B. Eliason

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The present study used an experimental design to investigate the efficacy of using short (12 words or less), prominently placed supplemental labels to increase the effectiveness of select extant labels in museum exhibits. The experimenter-developed supplemental labels were designed to leverage exogenous/bottom-up and endogenous/top-down sources of influence on selective attention. Measures of patron behavior, knowledge retention, and attitude found no significant differences between group means under control and treatment conditions. These outcomes were surprising and inconsistent with findings from similar research conducted by Hirschi and Screven. The supplemental labels in the present study might have failed to capture attention because …

The Task Of Being Content: Expatriate Wives In Beijing, Emotional Work And Patriarchal Bargain, Daniella Arieli

Journal of International Women's Studies

Based upon an ethnographic study of western expatriate (expat) wives in Beijing, this paper describes these women’s ‘patriarchal bargain’ and the emotional labor it involves. Relocation entails pressures to support the husbands’ careers in various ways, interruption of their working and social life, and increased economic and social dependency. At the same time, however, it also allows them to enjoy leisure and prestige, and to conduct a privileged life style. This bargain demands an emotional labor on the women’s part: an ongoing effort to feel good with their life in Beijing. The study focuses on the strategies the women use …

Integration, Clarification, Substantiation: Sex, Gender, Ethnicity And Migration As Social Determinants Of Women’S Health, Bilkis Vissandjee, Ilene Hyman, Denise L. Spitzer, Alisha Apale, Nahar Kamrun

Journal of International Women's Studies

The aim of this paper was to examine, via a scoping review, how the literature focusing on immigrant women’s health, based on selected criteria, has been able to capture not only sex and gender differences but also the other socially grounded determinants of health. Using selected health databases as well as a diversity of keywords, a final sample of 59 was obtained after a number of steps to increase validity and credibility of the process were taken. Since “women” was one of the main keywords, all of the studies included women either by themselves (n=20/59) or along with men (n=39/59). …

Pathologizing The Female Body: Phallocentrism In Western Science, Stephanie E. Libbon

Journal of International Women's Studies

In his well-known work Making Sex, Thomas Laqueur contends that the conception of human sexuality evolved from the ancient Greeks’ one-sex model to modernity’s two-sex model as events surrounding the French Revolution prompted a desire to see difference and therefore a need to create difference. In particular, Laqueur argues that it was the struggle for power between those advocating enfranchisement for women and those opposed to this which led to the reconstitution of the human body and in particular the female body. Extrapolating on Laqueur’s assertion that the female was conceived as an inferior version of the male in Antiquity …

Book Review: Daughters Of Kerala: 25 Short Stories By Award-Winning Authors, Marie Varghese

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Daughters of Kerala: 25 Short Stories by Award-Winning Authors, translated by Achamma C. Chandersekaran

Aku Newsletter : May 2007, Volume 8, Issue 1, Aga Khan University

The Aga Khan University Newsletters

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Analysis Of Topological Characteristics Of Huge Online Social Networking Services, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Seungyeop Han, Haewoon Kwak, Sue Moon, Hawoong Jeong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Social networking services are a fast-growing business in the Internet. However, it is unknown if online relationships and their growth patterns are the same as in real-life social networks. In this paper, we compare the structures of three online social networking services: Cyworld, MySpace, and orkut, each with more than 10 million users, respectively. We have access to complete data of Cyworld's ilchon (friend) relationships and analyze its degree distribution, clustering property, degree correlation, and evolution over time. We also use Cyworld data to evaluate the validity of snowball sampling method, which we use to crawl and obtain partial network …

Causal Effect Of Corporal Punishment On Children's Internalizing And Externalizing Behavioral Outcomes: Results From A Propensity Score Matching Analysis, Sara Zane Morris

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Substantial research supports the association between corporal punishment and children's behavioral problems, suggesting that punishment leads to both internalizing and externalizing behaviors. However, this research has not been able to discern the direction of causality in this relationship for many reasons, including a lack of experimental data. The purpose of this study is to assess the causal effect of corporal punishment on internalizing and externalizing behaviors by using a Propensity Score Matching (PSM) analysis. This study uses data from waves 1 and 2 of the longitudinal cohort study of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), including 6, …

Understanding The Multicultural Experience Of Lep Adolescents, Sharlene Snead Monahan

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This inquiry is a qualitative study of the multicultural experience of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students who are learning a second language in an inner-city high school in southeastern Georgia. The LEP students are enrolled or have been enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program. Using three strands of inquiry, critical phenomenological, narrative, and anthropological, I addressed three major issues. One, I examined the struggle of LEP students to learn English at a proficiency level to pass the state-mandated test for graduation and receive a high-school diploma. Not only must the LEP students learn a new …

Us Health Care Crisis: Implications For Education, Medical Praxis, And Democracy, Michael W. Kleinpeter

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This theoretical inquiry sought to critically analyze the various ideological and political aspects of the culture of health care reform in the United States (US) and to investigate the underlying ideologies, values, and purposes of medical practice in a changing democratic society. Using Michel Foucault's cultural studies approach as the theoretical framework for the study, agent and client relationships within the US health care system were examined in efforts to describe the articulation between the health care crisis and the government's social responsibility to prevent the imminent bankruptcy of its health care system. State and national data were collected from …

Millennial Media: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of The Short Film "Narrow Roads", Auri - Christopher Colin Jones

Masters Theses

As we move into the future of , society has become more involved with the media they consume. Younger generations in the past generations have been effected and have affected media development in various ways. The Millennial generation of today is no exception. This thesis discusses the effects of media on the millennial generation through fantasy theme chains of an original video narrative. Millennial students will watch the narrative and discuss with other Millennials the themes presented and perceived from the video. The results from this study will give a look into how millennial interaction about visual media makes a …

Development And Inequality: The Origins And Consequences Of Disciplinary Power In Argentina, Jessica Cenegy Brice

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Significant emphasis has been placed upon external influences which have maintained or perpetuated the relative underdevelopment of Latin America. Though some of this literature will provide a basis for explanation, the current analysis addresses the phenomenon with a notable variation from existing perspectives by introducing the Foucauldian distinction between juridical power and disciplinary power as an evaluative framework of analysis. Specifically, it emphasizes the need to incorporate unique cultural, historical, and structural characteristics that interrelate with power dynamics that have materialized within Argentina and have frustrated development efforts.

Pieces Of The Universe, Michelle C. Moode

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The work included in my thesis exhibition, Pieces of the Universe, demonstrated a cyclical art-making process that is closely connected to the content of the work. Through the installation, my aim was to extend the relationship I have with my art into the viewer's experience of the work. This paper presents my three main goals for the installation, and discusses the origin and interconnectivity of these goals. My research practices, influential artists, and future plans for this body of work are also addressed.

Assessing Public Opinion Toward Homelessness In The United States, Joni Mari Dugan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examines the relationship between a variety of demographic characteristics and an individual's feelings and helping behavior towards the homeless population. This study also distinguishes between the way urban residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness with the way that rural residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness. Respondents were identified as urban or rural by using the nine party county codification scheme of rural-urban continuum codes from the United States Department of Agriculture. This study is a secondary data analysis of the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS), which has a sample size of 3,000 …

Indian Warfare, Household Competency, And The Settlement Of The Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 To 1794, John M. Boback

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The thesis of this dissertation is that Indian-related violence and warfare had a profound influence on the duration and nature of the frontier experience of those men and women who settled in the western Virginia backcountry between 1749 and 1794. Recurrent attacks by Shawnees, Delawares, Mingos, and Indians from the Great Lakes region caused such widespread death, destruction, and depopulation that it effectively prolonged the period of austere and difficult living conditions for over forty years. This conclusion contradicts the assertions of some recent scholars who have argued that crude living conditions lasted for only a year or two on …

Intrapersonal Communication And Well-Being, James Abbott

Theses and Dissertations

This research explored the experience of self-talk (intrapersonal communication) among subjects of varying well-being, considering multiple characteristics of self-talk such as tone, content, timing, and subject awareness. The research questions were: (R1) How is intrapersonal communication used and experienced by those with higher and lower levels of self-assessed well-being? (R2) To what extent are subjects of varying well-being states aware of their intrapersonal communication?

Twenty semi-structured personal interviews were conducted with individuals of varying well-being and other characteristics such as age and occupation. The subjects ranged in age from approximately twenty-one to eighty. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and …

The Imagination Of James Boyd White, Lee C. Bollinger

Michigan Law Review

For several decades, James Boyd White has been a unique voice in the law. It is a voice of extraordinary intellectual range, of erudition and of deep commitment to a life of self-understanding and of humane values. His point of access is language - all language, in every context. Armed y a lifetime of thought about words, he justifiably has regarded no field or discipline or communicative activity as foreign and outside his ken. Whoever reads him must feel his sense of intellectual empowerment that our world, sectioned as it is by expertise, would deny us.

Diet Of The Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus Avunculus)In The Khau Ca Area, Ha Giang Province, Northeastern Vietnam, Le Khac Quyet, Anh Duc Nguyen, Vu Anh Tai, Barth Wright, Herbert H. Covert

Faculty and Staff Publications

The Tonkin sub-nosed (TSN) monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus)is both critically endangered and endemic to northeastern Vietnam. This species is one of the world’s top 25 endangered primates. Rhinopithecus avunculusis known only from three isolated populations that are located in Ha Giang, Tuyen Quang and Bac Kan Provinces. The remaining population is estimated to consist of approximately 150 individuals. The two largest populations are found in Na Hang Nature Reserve (Tuyen Quang Province) and Khau Ca area (Ha Giang Province).

The diet of the TSN monkeys consists of a broad range of plants and plant parts. Since 2004, 31 food species have …

Akerlof And Kranton On Identity In Economics: Inverting The Analysis, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

The concept of identity was introduced into the neoclassical utility maximising framework by Akerlof and Kranton in an analysis which draws directly from social psychology's social identity approach and self-categorisation theory. This paper examines their analysis, and compares the social identity approach and an alternative social psychology identity framework called the sociological approach to identity. Using this comparison, the paper argues that their treating identity as an argument in the utility function leaves unaddressed how individuals' different social identities are related. The paper suggests a framework for addressing this issue by embedding their utility function in a personal identity objective …

Minutes April 30, 2007

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Arbiter, April 30, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Slovakia And The European Union: Complexities And Contradictions, Megan M. Metzger

International Studies Honors Projects

The European Union is a grand project in supranational governance. As the Union continues to enlarge, however, it faces new challenges and new questions. In this thesis, I use Slovakia as a case study to examine the impact of EU integration and the relationship between the EU’s political goals and the political culture of states themselves. I will argue that there is often a complex and contradictory relationship between these two conceptions, and that this has long-term implications for the processes of continued European integration, supranational governance, and Europeanization which are central to the future of the European Union.

The Statesman, V. 50, I. 49, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 50, i. 49

Japanese-Brazilian Return Migration: Pushes, Pulls, And Prospects, Stephanie N. Phillips

Sociology Honors Projects

Japan’s economic situation and need for foreign labor present challenges when attracting and incorporating an influx of newcomers, which in turn poses questions relevant to previously established theories of migration. By examining public policies and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians or Brazilian nikkeijin—migrants of Japanese descendants born in Brazil—I argue that Japan’s immigration policy is a key determinant in their migration to Japan and, subsequently, that this policy plays an integral role in shaping the Japanese-Brazilians’ environment in the host society. Building on Portes and Borocz’s theory of host country receptivity, I consider how determinants of migration influence the immigrants’ incorporation. …

Unh Celebrates Immigrant And Refugee Support Day May 1, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Monday, April 30, 2007, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

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Asylum Seeker And Refugee Access And Utilization Of Healthcare In Copenhagen And Los Angeles: A Comparative Study, Juleon Rabbani

Whittier Scholars Program

This project compares the accessibility of the healthcare systems in Los Angeles and Copenhagen in relation to refugees and asylum seekers; different cultural and legal barriers will be analyzed to understand its impact on utilization. These factors describe the actual health conditions of the studied groups by processing and comparing the collected results. Empirical data, based on interviews and observations, will be supported by governmental legislature and relevant literature.

Resisting Agricultural Assimilation: The Political Ecology Of Hmong Growers In The Twin Cities Metropolitan Region, Laura M. Kerr

Geography Honors Projects

Over one and a half million Hmong refugees have arrived in the United States since the end of the “Secret War” in 1974. The Saint Paul and Minneapolis metropolitan area is home to the largest urban population of Hmong immigrants in the United States. A significant number of Hmong refugees living in the Twin Cities metropolitan area have chosen farming as both a primary and supplemental source of income. While living in the metro area many Hmong rent land in peri-urban areas to farm and subsequently sell at local markets. Employing a cultural and political ecology framework, this research critically …

Faculty Senate Agenda, April 30, 2007, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• President's Report
• Faculty Code Revisions Process
• Committee Assignments
• Commencement
• ADVANCE Report
• Committee-on-Committees Report
• EPC Business
• PRPC Business
• Representation of Extension and RCDE on Faculty Senate402.10.1 and 402.12.1(2)(3) (1st reading)
• Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility 403.1 and 403.3.1
• Faculty Senate Supernumerary 402.3.1
• Senate “Vice-President” 402.12.1(2)